Errol Tiwari

Self-confidence is very important. If you don’t think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent.

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial tournament in which teams worldwide compete.

Some 200 years ago, chess became a matter of personal challenge and international competition.

Chess was designed to provide endless hours of enjoyment and pleasure to the person who indulges it.

United States chess champ Fabiano Caruana conquered an elite field which included current world champion Ding Liren, to win the Superbet Chess Classic Tournament in Bucharest, Romania, recently.

Exactly sixty years ago, as it happened in 2023 between Ding LIren and Ian Nepomniachtchi, Tigran Petrosian opposed Mikhail Botvinnik for the FIDE World Championship Chess Championship.

Ding Liren, ranked number three in the world by FIDE (2789), took home the World Chess Champion-ship title to China for the first time ever on the last day of April, to the satisfaction of over one billion Chinese residents.

The Candidates Tourna-ment has been organised by FIDE, chess’s international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Championship.

The highest ranking chess grandmaster ever to visit Guyana, England’s Nigel David Short, MBE, paid a four-day visit to these shores last week and competed against 20 simultaneous boards successfully without losing or drawing a game.

In 1979, there was a strong grandmaster chess tournament in Munich in which Dr Helmut Pfleger, a grandmaster himself, sought to monitor the heart rates of players.

Never before in Guy-ana’s history has there been 50 or more girls and women playing chess.

Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841 – 1924), ‘The Black Death’ as he was popularly known, was an extroverted man with an adventurous spirit.

Last month chess lost one of its illustrious sons when Alex Joseph died after a brief illness.

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has joined the Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA).

One of the beautiful things about chess is that it consumes the player intellectually.

It seems as if the chess world is acknowledging the importance of traditional chess with the hosting of two esteemed classical events.

The chess world is saddened by the passing of Jorge Vega Fernandez (1935-2023).

A total of 17 Special Education teachers met at the David Rose Special School in West Ruimveldt on Friday, February 3 to compete in a grand chess tournament.

Director of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Irshad Mohamad was appointed recently to serve as vice-president after that post became vacant when Anand Raghunauth, who was vice president, assumed the presidency.

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament, which ends today in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, drew five participants in the world’s top ten, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE) rating system.